Waubonsee Community College

Children during the Holocaust, Patricia Heberer ; introduction by Nechama Tec ; advisory committee, Christopher R. Browning [and others]

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-449) and index

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Children during the Holocaust

908071143

Patricia Heberer ; introduction by Nechama Tec ; advisory committee, Christopher R. Browning [and others]

Documenting life and destruction : Holocaust sources in context

Approximately 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust. This book from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and the fates, of its youngest victims. Documents and complementary text examine the arc of persecutory policies directed against European Jewry and its impact upon Jewish children and adolescents. Additional chapters reflect upon the experience of non-Jewish children as victims, perpetrators, and bystanders during World War II

Children in the early years of antisemitic persecution -- Children and the war -- Lives in the balance: Escape and deportation -- Children in the world of the ghetto -- Children in the concentration camp universe -- Children in the web of racial hygiene policy -- The lives of others: "Aryan" children and the Nazi regime -- The world of the child -- Children and resistance and rescue -- Elsewhere, perhaps? Children and the end of the Holocaust